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Expatriates Making a Difference: John Fawcett of Bali's John Fawcett Foundation

(5/13/2012)

Australian John Fawcett came to Bali 30 years ago at the age of 49, diagnosed as critically ill and waited for what he thought was a fast-approaching end.

Three decades on, John Fawcett is still on Bali, very much alive and making a genuine difference in the lives of the people who live on the island that is his adopted home.

The John Fawcett Foundation, established by John, has decades of life-changing work to its credit. The foundation has performed more than 33,0000 sight-giving cataract operations in Bali, Kupang, East Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan.

The good news for Bali is that at 80 years of age John shows little sign of slowing down.